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Open Access Week for Climate Justice

Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Chair Kiran Asher Advocates for Open Access to Information

Friday, December 9, 2022

Kiran Asher, professor and chair of the Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, recently served as a panelist for the "Open for Climate Justice Panel" as part of the UMass Amherst Science...
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UMass library in black and white

Brutally Beautiful: UMass Magazine Profiles UMassBRUT's Celebration of Brutalist Architecture

Friday, December 9, 2022

You see them in the backgrounds of sci-fi movies from A Clockwork Orange to Blade Runner 2049—enormous concrete structures representing repressive dystopian governments. But these buildings aren’t...
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Katrina Spade

Katrina Spade, MArch ’13, Discusses Death, Human Composting, and a Greener Future in the New York Times

Friday, December 9, 2022

Katrina Spade, MArch ’13, is featured in a New York Times piece discussing her nonprofit, Urban Death Project, and her goal of seeing human composting "overtake cremation as the default American...
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Cara Takakjian

Cara Takakjian Named HFA Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Cara Takakjian—senior lecturer, undergraduate program director, and chief undergraduate advisor for Italian Studies—has been named associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion for the College...
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